How to make both loonshots and franchises successful inside an organisation

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• Loonshots
• technology policy
• climate change
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In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?

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• Books
• Midnight's Machines
• Arun Mohan Sukumar
• technology policy

Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’

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• Books
• Midnight's Machines
• technology policy

Most stories have philosophical underpinnings that attempt to explain many phenomena in lay-terms

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• sustainable growth
• Steven Johnson
• economic thoery
• inclusive growth
• employee retention
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• Human Resources
• employee attrition
• iPhone
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• Steve Jobs

Mainstream economic theories do not fit reality. Two new books, ‘Measuring What Counts’ and ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’, provide a counterview: Instead of treating people as data, listen to them, and find answers to their real problems for inclusive, sustainable progress

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• Martine Durand
• Good Economics for Hard Times
• PREMIUM CONTENT
• Esther Duflo
• books
• Measuring What Counts
• sustainable growth
• Joseph Stiglitz
• economic thoery
• inclusive growth
• Jean-Paul Fitoussi
• Abhijit Banerjee

What Uber, Netflix and Walt Disney Company show us about thriving in a tech world; leadership skills for sustainable success; and how human behaviour shapes decisions

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• The Moment of Lift
• The Third Pillar
• 21 Letters
• Books
• Netflix
• Talking to Strangers
• Trillion Dollar Coach
• The Ride of a Lifetime
• best books
• Uber
• Loonshots
• Walt Disney Company
• The Infinite Game

Gates reads 50 books a year. How does he process all this information?

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• Books
• Bill Gates
• Anti-stories
• trends
• Digital Economy

In this podcast, listen to five-time ICC Umpire of the Year Simon Taufel on the game of cricket, and the learnings there for leaders who are looking to build high performance organisations

• Play Time : 70 mins

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• High-performance teams
• cricket
• coachability
• books
• Sport
• coaching
• Leadership
• Learning Culture

Public discourse has descended into the shallows. Where is the space left for citizens to engage in deeper deliberations about their future?

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• public discourse
• the China story
• large-scale transformation
• books
• Systems Thinking
• Deep listening
• Think Long Committee for California

Nir Eyal wrote the definitive book on how to design tech products that will get people hooked. His latest book ‘Indistractable’ has advice on how to avoid digital distractions and hold our own in this war for our attention. Some insights from the book

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• Books
• Technology
• Nir Eyal
• Economies of Engagement
• addictive tech design